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Shinji Mikami is open to returning as a Game Director if he gets to make the game he wants
- Thread starter jbug617
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Before he joined Bethesda, he said he wanted to make a sci-fi Mass Effect kind of game. Bethesda wanted him to make a horror game first because, you know, you don't build a development studio around Shinji Mikami and ask him to make something not-horror.
But I'm guessing they didn't give him that chance since he stopped directing immediately after.
Dude has not leverage to have this statement out there. We should be past the point of writing "blank checks" to game directors. They almost produce no value.
While yes MS studios across the board seemingly have an equal level of creative freedom now, let's not pretend like MS studios didn't previously have this in the last 20 years. Bungie pretty much acted like an independent studio inside of MS, Rare didn't get told to make Viva or Nut's and Bolts etc. Of course it hasn't always been equal across the studios, whiling ebbing and flowing in time. But writing of 14 years of their internal studios management as creatively strict and controlled, in comparison to this more free management style of the last 4-5 years is very misleading.
A sci-fi mass effect type game from a Japanese dev sounds like literally Microsofts dream game tbh
Let him make a tank controlled survival horror game with pre rendered backgrounds and backtracking. Us old time fans have been waiting for this for 15 years.
Depends on how MS handles the studio. If they were forcing projects onto them i'd imagine he'd be more likely to leave but if like he says he truly gets creative freedom and backing he would direct a game.
I think he should make his dream game and John Johanas should be given the reins to The Evil Within series. This is the best of both worlds imo.
Of course, you can't just snap two teams able to make AAA games out of existence. I think they only have the budget and manpower to make one game at a time.
Of course, you can't just snap two teams able to make AAA games out of existence. I think they only have the budget and manpower to make one game at a time.
He's almost certainly saying this because of the Zenimax buyout, and hopefully he will be able to get his wish once it's complete. I know consolidation is nothing to cheer for, but if he gets the budget to make his dream game, I'll be happy regardless
Agreed. He knows what he's doing. And it's the right thing to do.
Has to be different from mass effect itself too and I guess whatever starfield turns out to be like?
Why would he want leave the studio he built to start a new one for a publisher with much less money?
Ah right, did not know that, thought he just joined/worked there.
Point still stands about budget and having to start a new team up though.
Still doesnt change the fact that under microsoft tango will have a fuck ton more money than platinum does
This is an extremely weird post, tbh. Mans said "this is 2020, not 2016" and you're going off about stuff that happened 10 years ago and 'history of Microsoft'?
There's nothing misleading about the comment you're responding to.
Putting the ball in Phil's court, love it. I'm very much looking forward to Ghostwire Tokyo but I'd love another game directed by the gawd.
Please do it. The Evil Within was awesome. I get that Mikami wants to foster younger talent in Japan, but it's a bummer that our best creators in the industry are getting older and project times longer so we get less and less output from them. We haven't had a real Kamiya game in 7 years.
Imagine a high budget spiritual successor to Godhand or Vanquish... or something even MORE ambitious. This could be potentially Mikami's biggest budget ever if Phil plays it right. Hopefully Tango being under Zenimax doesn't mean MS is more hands off than with the smaller studios.